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While Scarlett Johansson is getting raves for portraying an artificial intelligence in Spike Jonze's new virtual romantic drama "Her," it seems that iPhone virtual assistant Siri is not a fan.

BuzzFeed's Jordan Zakarin recently asked Siri a number of questions about "Her" to comic effect. Siri's responses seem to suggest that Apple's "geniuses" were aware of the big-screen version of their celebrated assistant, and proceeded to program some pretty priceless responses.

While Juliette Binoche cut off her hair for TIFF, her "Words and Pictures" co-star Clive Owen grew his -- on his face, that is.

The 48-year-old British star showed up to Roy Thompson Hall on Saturday at Roy Thomson Hall with a new moustache in tow for the TIFF premiere of his film. In the Fred Schepisi romance, Owen sports some serious scruff (though not quite as upper-lip-heavy) to play an English teacher who challengers his prep school's art teacher (Binoche) to a competition of words versus paintings.

"Clive, he has a quite a diversity of work behind him, and sometimes you see him as an action star. But if you go back to his earlier pictures, and some others as well, he really does great performances in drama," Schepisi told IndieWire last week. "He's not necessarily so much in comedy as I'm aware of, but I think you'll see a very, very different side to him in this film. It's an extraordinary performance that you may not expect to see."

A clean-shaven Owen on Aug. 1. (Dave M. Bennett/Getty Images)Owen is also at the festival promoting "Blood

Despite being one of the stars of the upcoming comic book actioner "Kick-Ass 2," Jim Carrey has come out in opposition of the film. In light of the Sandy Hook tragedy in December, the 51-year-old Canadian actor has now publicly condemned the movie, about a group of regular Joes who fight crime.

I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e

"I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence," Carrey tweeted. This, despite the fact that his character, Colonel Stars and Stripes, doesn't even use bullets.

The Ontario native apologised to the other people involved with the film, who include stars Chloe Grace Moretz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, director Jeff Wadlow and comic book writer Mark Millar.

I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.

So how violent is "Kick-Ass 2"? Very, as Millar wrote in response to Carrey on his website.

"Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin," Millar wrote. "A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much."

Millar expressed how "baffled" he was by Carrey's change of heart. "Jim's character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place," he wrote.

Several of the directors of "The ABCs of Death." (Jag Gundu/Getty Images)

Twelve filmmakers risked their necks at the premiere of "The ABCs of Death" last night.

To promote the Midnight Madness screening of the TIFF horror, which is made up of 26 chapters devoted to different methods of dying, directors like Adam Wingard, Canadian Kaare Andrews and Spain's Nacho Vigalondo piled on top of each other to create a human pyramid before falling into a pile on the floor after the photo was taken.

Friday night at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, "Lost" star Matthew Fox appeared on the red carpet for the first time since his DUI arrest this summer -- and he looked a little, well, lost.

The 46-year-old actor sported a grey suit and some wet-looking hair at the TIFF premiere of "Emperor," in which he plays an expert on Japan who will determine Emperor Hirohito's fate. Fox did his duty at the film screening-- posing with co-star Tommy Lee Jones, taking photos with fans and smiling for reporters -- but overall, he looked a little weary of being in the spotlight again.

Part of the reason he may have looked a little different was because he reportedly lost 35 lbs. for his upcoming role in "Alex Cross," in which he plays a cage-fighting hitman.

Jared Leto showed up to the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival looking like Paul Bunyan's long-lost brother. The usually fresh-faced 40-year-old actor kept his hair slicked back and his massive amount of facial hair on display as he posed for portraits for his TIFF film "Artifact," a documentary that Leto produced and directed under the name Batholomew Cubbins. The film revolves around his band 30 Seconds to Mars' lawsuit with their music label.

That same day, the "My So-Called Life" alum brought his beard along to Much Music's New.Music.Live show and to an interview with Tribute, in which he joked he could play Abraham Lincolm ("I've got the beard!") and seemed to suggest he might return to acting when his facial hair gets "a little bigger" and he's "not so busy with other things."

The thigh's the limit at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

First, Vanessa Hudgens played a little leg peekaboo at the "Spring Breakers" premiere. Then Kate Hudson flashed some leg for "The Reluctant Fundmentalist," and then flashed a little more in a dress with an almost hip-baring slit for the press conference. Heck, even buttoned-down "Twilight" star Anna Kendrick got in on the action!

Now, Penelope Cruz is the latest actress to join the fest's growing Angelina Jolie leg brigade. The 38-year-old Spanish actress, who stars as one-half of an ill-fated Sarajevo couple in the TIFF film "Twice Born," nearly flashed more than her stems on Thursday evening as she walked on stage to present the film at Roy Thomson Hall in a vintage pinky purple Versace gown.

It's been five years since Melinda Clarke last terrorized "The O.C." as Julie Cooper, but the actress was on her best behaviour when she resurfaced at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival this week.

Clarke, who played Marissa's mom Julie on "The O.C." from 2003 to 2007, showed up to the 13th Annual InStyle And The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's TIFF party at the Windsor Arms Hotel on Tuesday. The 43-year-old actress, who currently plays interrogator Amanda on "Nikita," sported some new bangs as she posed on the red carpet in a form-fitting gray frock.

The 43-year-old "Twilight" star accompanied his Canadian girlfriend to the premiere of her fest film "Passion" Tuesday night, but stayed off the red carpet -- though not before one photographer got a sneaky shot of Sheen, dressed down in a mustard yellow shirt and a wine-coloured velvet jacket.